Openai said on Friday that he had revealed evidence that a Chinese security business had set up an artificial intelligence monitoring tool to gather real-time reports on anti-Chinese positions in social media services in western countries.
The company’s researchers said they had identified this new campaign, which they called a peer evaluation because someone who worked in the tool used Openai’s technologies to locate the computer code that supports it.
Ben Nimmo, an OpenAi researcher, said this was the first time the company had revealed a surveillance tool powered by the AI.
“Threat actors sometimes give us a look at what they do on other parts of the internet because of the way they use AI models,” Mr Nimmo said.
There have been increasing concerns that AI can be used for surveillance, computer hacking, misinformation campaigns and other malicious purposes. Although researchers like Mr Nimmo say that technology can certainly allow these types of activities, add that AI can also help detect and stop such behavior.
Mr Nimmo and his team believe that the Chinese surveillance tool is based on Llama, an AI technology manufactured by Meta, which opens its technology, which means that it shared its work with software developers worldwide.
In a detailed report on the use of AI for malicious and misleading purposes, Openai also stated that he had revealed a separate Chinese campaign, called sponsorship, which used Openai technologies to create English -language positions that .
The same team, Openai said, used the company’s technologies to translate articles into Spanish before distributing them to Latin America. The articles criticized American society and politics.
Separately, the Openai researchers identified a campaign believed to be based in Cambodia, which used the company’s technologies to create and translate comments of social media that helped drive a fraud known as a “pig”, the report said. The comments created by AI were used to feel men on the internet and to engage them in an investment program.
(The New York Times has exerted an Openai and Microsoft criticism for copyright infringement of copyrights related to AI systems. Openai and Microsoft have denied these claims.)
